If you could travel back to the mid 90s and ask 100 football fans who the best finisher in the Premiership was, you’d find a majority telling you the answer was Robbie Fowler. He wasn’t tall, he wasn’t fast, he wasn’t strong and he wasn’t mobile, but if you gave him the ball, he...Read more »

Many football supporters were complaining this weekend when the Manchester City v Liverpool game was on neither Sky Sports nor ESPN, despite being a fairly crucial 4th v 5th clash, and the season’s opening meeting between the two serving up an exciting 2-2 draw.
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21 attempts on goal for Chelsea against Everton, but just three actually found the target.
Didier Drogba was particularly responsible – he had six shots, but didn’t force Tim Howard into a save once.
Neither of Chelsea’s forwards had a shot on target.
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In part one we looked at passing, in part two we looked at crossing. For the final instalment, we will look at what football is all about – goals.
Firstly, a simple statistic – the average number of goals per game in the five leagues:
The only major surprise here is that the Premiership is so far...Read more »

…and by the same token, if you don’t get shots on target in football games, you don’t score goals.
You don’t really need chalkboard analysis to describe how bad Liverpool are, but here is some evidence for you.
In their past two away games, Liverpool have had a grand total of two shots on target. One...Read more »